Emotional Robots and Erotic Dolls: Theories of Visual Culture
Using ideas from art history, visual culture, gender and sexuality studies with the medical humanities, Marquard Smith’s The Erotic…
Art
The Zong: two paintings and the end of slavery
Did Dido Elizabeth Belle – the illegitimate child of John Lindsay, a Royal Navy captain, and an African…
Interaction of Color: Josef Albers at Somerset House
A new exhibition ‘Form through Colour: Josef Albers, Anni Albers and Gary Hume’ opened at Somerset House this month…
René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass
René Lalique: Enchanted by Glass is a major exhibition at The Corning Museum of Glass in New York…
Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower
This gorgeous book – one of our favourite publications for the summer – explores depictions of the natural world…
Georgian Fever
This year is the 300th anniversary of George I’s accession, and already Georgian fever is upon us –…
Whistler’s Mother
James McNeill Whistler shares his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts with some unlikely characters. Not least among them literary…
James McNeill Whistler: A Life for Art’s Sake
Daniel E. Sutherland’s biography of luminary American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) is not only the first in…
Summer Art Selection
Is there a finer season than summer? The sun is presumably shining, work is in relatively short supply…
Available Now: Josef Albers’ ‘Interaction of Color’ iPad app
‘Color is really the mise-en-scène in which everything else takes place’. Peter Mendelsund, Graphic Designer
Michael Landy: Saints Alive. A first hand experience of the National Gallery exhibition
British artist Michael Landy (b. 1963) is known primarily as an installation artist. His work, along with others…
History Catalogue 2013: Retrospectives from Yale University Press
These titles, selected from the Yale University Press 2013 History Catalogue, offer in depth retrospectives of extraordinary events, people and…
The First Modern Woman Artist: Paula Modersohn-Becker
Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907) was a groundbreaking painter whose often-overlooked place in modernism forces us to reconsider our understanding…
Strindberg, A Life – Sue Prideaux on the playwright’s relationships
The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was, amongst other things, a mercurial talent, artist, occultist, husband and father. He…
Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.
For the May 13 centennial of Joseph Pulitzer Jr.’s birth, Marjorie B. Cohn, author of Classic Modern, the first biography of Joseph Pulitzer,…